The NBA’s second season will be starting in a couple of days. The rest of these dudes are huddled up preparing to give you their analysis on who’s going to do what & where the chip will go. Enh…before all that, I wanted to give you my playoff pep talk (or maybe a downer for some of you). I’m a former degenerate who goes partially off stats & the rest determined by gut instinct. And my instincts say LBJ & the Bron Bron’s will be the last team standing, swatting back all contenders. Plus, I just needed a reason to post these tee’s.

1. KG’s going to miss at least the opening round of the playoffs — Sorry Dart but you can’t walk into a battle with one of your main soldiers hobbled. Hell, they may not even make the first round because the Bulls are kind of hot (12 of their last 16 games, including a home W against Boston). Read the rest of this entry »

A little bit of this, a little bit of that boom bap as Skyzoo & Wale put in work Read the rest of this entry »

Gimme that beat fool © Hon. O’Shea Jackson. Read the rest of this entry »

Saw this one on Twitter via Tha Bizness. For archival purposes as the the common strand for this motley assemblage of rappers is Kanye West. Either by producing or rhyming, a younger Louis Vuitton Don has his hand involved in nearly every track. Appearances are also made by Twista, Slim Thug, Consequece, Malik Yusef, John Legend & Talib Kweli.  Tracklist and link after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Hip-Hop has been getting major attention from professional sports as of late and it’s been an incredible look. Not to be outdone by Kanye and the NBA, the NFL acquires K’naan’s “Dreamer” off the rock solid Troubadour to symbolize the likes of Matt Stafford and Michael Crabtree’s lifelong ambitions. Read the rest of this entry »

30% off on everything @ Boundless for four days. Grab yourself a tee or two for spring.

Seen via DD

And so it came to pass that the mighty kingdom of RadioShack formulated a new diabolical plan to keep it’s draw bridge unhinged and open for the plebes of surrounding strip-mall communities. The people came forth bearing craptastic gadgets in exchange for store credit and walked away from the kingdom with new and improved thing-a-ma-jigs they would one day return again for even more store credit. The cycle was unending as the kingdom had the corner on the market of odd gadgetry, and it was written in the electronic Magna Carta, “RadioShack will sell record player pre-amps and line-in to mic-in dB equalizers. It shall be so.” And all the people rejoiced, waving their digital voice-recorder 2 Gig memory cards in the air.

Sigh. I love that story. Read the rest of this entry »

Contrary to what you may have come to believe, D.A. and Max of Chester French do more than collaborate with the occasional eclectic rapper. Combining their talents of vocal, guitar, bass and overall passion for music, the duo by way of Harvard University are set to embark on their Star Trak appointed mission and release their debut album Love The Future on April 21st, 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

To those out of the loop, the Champions League is like the NCAA tournament of European club soccer. Obviously though, it’s a hell of a lot bigger. Reigning champions Manchester United, lackluster on the pitch recently, traveled to the Estádio do Dragão (Stadium of the Dragon) to take on FC Porto yesterday. United needed Read the rest of this entry »

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Come May 9th and 10th, Phoenix is going to be taken over by a shitload of MPC-toting, headphone-rocking beatmakers. That’s because Sha Money XL’s One Stop Shop Producer’s conference is going down. This is the equivalent to Read the rest of this entry »

Gordon Gartrell y’all! Woot woot! Read the rest of this entry »

Morgan Daniele, Your Thick Thursday

Cheerleader Coach Carlie Christine Fired For Doing Playboy [Gunaxin]

6 Year Old Gets Porn Infested PSP From Walmart [The Koalition]

Ego Trip: Notable Rap Albums That Were Never Released [THMK]

Cosby Kid Rudy In New Reality Show [Yahoo]

Nike Air Force 1 Low White/Maize [SN]

Playboy + Pharrell [Press Play]

Karmaloop TV: KiD CuDi [KLTV]

Cliff Robinson Has A Lot Of Bass Guitars & ATVs [Sports By Brooks]

How to Easily Compare iTunes and Amazon MP3 Prices [The Daily Swarm]

Scott Storch Arrested For Grand Theft Auto In Miami [MTV]

“Sweatpants and Bo Jacksons,
Listening to Pac ‘Teardrops & Closed Caskets‘
Story got told that was oh so tragic
Everyday in the Crescent the same shit happen
Nigga get clapped & retaliation follow
Homey killed whoadie,
Whoadie homies gone kill homey tomorrow
Oblivious to it, I ride in my Monte Carlo Read the rest of this entry »

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About a year ago, I had a show in the wonderful city of Salisbury, NC and I decided to rock a new, white Big Pony Polo along with a pair of white Big Pony shoes. I was feeling myself, fresh to death and ready to rock the crowd. Of course, a brother was kind of nervous, so I decided to go outside and get some fresh air. I stood next to the bouncer to chop it up. He was marking some hands with blue Sharpie pens.

Then, his pen runs out of ink.

*shake shake shake*

Blue freaking ink all over my new white Polo shirt and cloth kicks.

*dead* (and not in the good way)

Seeing as how the bouncer was, y’know, a bouncer and he went by Read the rest of this entry »